March 2003

Hospital, Chiropractic College Collaborate on Patient Care

Monroe Community Hospital, a teaching nursing home in New York, recently established a chiropractic clinic to serve individuals with a host of chronic disabilities. Dr. Paul Katz, medical director at MCH and professor of medicine at the University of Rochester School of Medicine, has been working with New York Chiropractic College for the past year in order to offer frail nursing home residents services traditionally not accessible for this population.

Dr. J. Donald Dishman, DC, a New York Chiropractic College clinician and researcher, introduced a pilot program in 2002 that demonstrated chiropractic's efficacy in treating chronically ill patients.

The collaboration allows patients to experience relief of their spinal pain through chiropractic care. Additionally, chiropractic students are given the opportunity to observe the collaboration of chiropractic care with medical treatment. The students report that their experiences are overwhelmingly positive.

Monroe Community Hospital and New York Chiropractic College have since decided to commit additional time for patient visits in the consultative clinic, and the program has spawned related research projects. Chiropractic services at the hospital are now offered three days per week under the direction of NYCC assistant professor, Paul Dougherty, DC, a chiropractor who specializes in treatment of back pain in the elderly.

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